VOLUME 43 Has the Largest Circulation of anv NewsDaDer
Published in Johnston Countv
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1921
Published Tuesday and Fridav NUMBER 27
Price: $.200 the vear
Harry M. Daugherty, at Request
of Coolidge, Resigns His Place
As Atty. Gen. Amid a Tempest
LEAVING A SHARP NOTE
FOR THE PRESIDENT, HE
GOESTO ATLANTIC CITY
Resigns Solely Out Of
Deference To Cool
idge’s Wish; Parting
Shot Is Bitter.
QUITS OFFICE AT ONCE
Washington, March 28.—Harry M.
Daughetry passed out of public life
today in a tempest that terminated
befittingly his three stormy years as
Attorney General.
His appointment to the Cabinet by
President Harding was the subject of
criticism, and his resignation came
at the virtual demand of President
Coolidge and in the midst of a sen
sation-producing Senate investigation
of his official acts.
President Coolidge asked for the
resignation because he felt he could
not depend on Mr. Daughtery for
disinterested advice and because he
believed the Attorney General could
not prform satisfactorily the duties
of his office under the conditions re
sulting from the Senate inquiry.
Mr. Daughetry tendered his resig
nation “soley out of defence” to
the President’s request and aske'd
that it be effective at once.
Then, as a private citizen, he ad
dressed an open letter to the Presi
dent scathingly denouncing those who
had voted his retirement and declar
ing Mr. Coolidge’s stated reasons for
asking his resignation were “hardly
warranted by the facts.” The let
ter bristled with declarations that
the President’s “suggestion that an
attack upon a Cabinet officer dis
qualifies him for further service is
a “dangerous doctrine” and that
“cowardice and surrender of princi
ple are never expedient.”
Before this letter was received at
the White House, Mr. Daughetry
cleared his desk, left the Department
of Justice <and soon was aboard a
train en route to Atlantic City. He
plans to return to Washington next
week for the purpose only of closing
up his private affairs.
By reason of Mr. Daugherty’s re
tirement, President Coolidge for the
second time within six weeks, is
faced with selection of a new Cabinet
officer. Immediately Mr. Daugh
erty’s resignation became known
there arose a discussion of many
names. Same were eliminated as
soon as mentioned for one reason or
another, and others were dropped dur
ing the day with the result that the
list of those being mentioned tonight
included Chief Justice Arthur E.
Rugg of Massachusetts supreme
judicial court; Harlan F. Stone, dean
of the Columbia University School of
Law; Governor Alexander J. Groes
beck of Michigan; William S. Ken
yon, former Senator from Iowa and
now judge of the Federal circuit
court of appeals, Eighth District,
and Secretary of State Hughes.
The President has given no con
sideration yet as to any particular
persons, but has decided that the man
he selects as Attorney General must
have a knowledge of law and must
possess administrative capacity.
Selma Debating Team
Win Both Sides Question
Selma, March 29.—The affirmative
upheld by Lucy Talton and Mabel
Nordan defeated the Nashville nega
tive team here Friday evening by a
vote of two to one. At the same time
Harry Candler- and Hazel Smith up
holding the negative side defeated
the Enfield team at Enfield.
These debaters will represent the
Selma high school in the finals at
Chapel Hill, April 10 ai\d 11.
J-——
McLean Club For
Smithfield To Meet at
Court House To-night
There will be a meeting of
Smithfield Township in the inter
est of Hon. A. W. McLean, candi
date for Governor of North Caro
lina, in the Court House tonight
at 7:30 o'clock for the purpose
of organizing Smithfield Township
for the coming campaign. It is
hoped that all of Mr. McLean’s
friends will be present at this call
meeting so that a permanent or
ganization can be effected in
Smithfield Township.
Be sure to come at 7:30.
J. W. STEPHENSON,
Temporary Chairman.
JOHN A. NARRON,
Secretary
W. W. COLE PASSES
10 THE GREAT BEYOND
Death Claims Prominent At
torney After Lingering
Illness
Saturday morning the sad news of
the passing of Mr. W. W. Cole was
carried from lip to lip, his spirit hav
ing gently flown to its home in the
Great Beyond in the early morning
hours about 3:30 o'clock. For four
-years or more he had been a suffer
er from chronic diabetes probably
and hardening of the arteries, and for
probably two years he had been un
able to attend to his law practice. For
a week he had been critically ill and
those who watched by his bedside
knew that the end was near.
The funeral was held Sunday aft
ernoon at 1:30 o'clock in the Meth
odist church, Rev. D. H. Tuttle, pas
tor of the church, and Rev. A. S.
Barnes, Supt. of the Methodist Or
phanage at Raleigh, conducting the
service. Lovely floral offerings,
silent reminders of the sympathy of
friends, were banked around the al
tar, placed there by friends of the
sorrowing widow, who later bore
them to the cemetery. The service
was simple, Rev. D. H. Tuttle paying
a tribute to the deceased and Rev.
Mr. Barnes leading in prayer. The
choir sang as a special selection
Whittier’s lines which begin "When
on My Day of Life the Night Is Fall
ing” The Johnston County Bar As
sociation was present in a body and
Mr. F. H. Brooks made an appropri
ate talk on behalf of the association,
stating that resolutions in honor of
their deceased brother had been
drafted which would be presented in
Recorder’s court Tuesday morning.
At the conclusion of the service, the
body was taken to the city cemetery
for interment. The pall bearers were
as follows: Messrs. W. D. Hood, S.
T. Honeycutt, F. K. Broadhurst, J.
D. Spiers, T. R. Hood, H. V. Rose, J.
L. Scotton and Dr. N. T. Holland.
Willis W. Cole, familiarly known
by all his friends as “Bud” Cole, was
born in Bentonville Township Oct. 13.
1868 making his sojourn on earth 55
(Continued on page four)
Officers Arrive In Nick
of Time to Prevent a
Hold-up By Robbers
New York, March 30.—Three
policemen surprised four bandits
today in the act of relieving 26^
a Harlem social organization, of
members of the White Doves club,
money, watches and jewelry worth
$5',000, and arrested the four men.
With the night stick they had to
fight off the robbers’ victims, who
made a rush at the disarmed
prisoners. The officers got their
captives to the street after a live
ly scrimmage.
AGREETO CLOSE UP
STORES AT 6:30 P.M.
18 Business Firms Of
Smithfield Will Close
Stores Early For
Benefit Employees.
FROM APRIL 1 TO SEPT. 1
In a recent issue of The Herald, an
article by Mrs. W. T. Woodard of
Selma called upon the merchants of
Johnston ounty to close their stores
at G:30 o'clock in order to give em
ployers and employees a chance for
recreation, and for time to spend
with their families.
It was a happy coincidence that
Mr. Edward L. Woodall of this city,
was working on some step for Smith
field when Mrs. Woodard’s sugges
tion appeared in print, and for that
reason Smithfield is perhaps the first
town in the county to report a de
cision along this line. Eighteen busi
ness firms have signed the follow
ing agreement:
We the undersigned merchants
agree to close our stores from April
1st to Sept. 1st at 6:30 p. m. with
the exception of Saturday nights and
at ten oclock on that night.
Woodall’s, W. J. Huntley, J. D.
Spiers, W. Rubenstein, R. S. Smith
& Co. A. G. Rabil, R. Lewis, Quality
Store, Charles Davis, M. Hurwitz Co.
Worley Furniture Co., W. M. Sand
ers & Son, N. B. Grantham, Austin
Stephenson Co., Cotter Underwood
Co., Vara L. Smith & Co., T. C.
Jordan & Son, Miss Ora Poole.
Any other stores that desire to fall
in line, can add their name to the list
any time.
Senior Class Play “A
Trial of Hearts** Is
Creditably Presented
The Seniors of the high school pre
sented the play, “A Trial of Hearts,”
in the school auditorium Friday ev
ening. The play was directed by
Mrs. Alfred R. Wilson, the expres
sion teacher, and the large number
of Seniors taking part showed good
, training. The setting of the play was
laid in a college town and the scenes
were typical of college life. Between
the first and second acts the fifty
prizes which were given by different
merchants and business men of the
city were presented. Another pleas
ing feature of the evening was the
duet by Miss Ava Wellons and Mr.
Lawrence Wallace.
Music was furnished between acts
by Jess’s Honey Boys. A large crowd
was present and enjoyed the enter
tainment.
Flood Waters Result In
Enormous Property Loss
Latest Reports Indicate More Than a Dozen Persons Perished;
Maryland and Pennsylvania Hardest Hit by Flood; Potomac
A^id Ohio Rivers On Rampage; Railroad Traffic In And Out
Of Cumberland At a Standstill; Waters Receding.
Cumberland, Md., March 30.—The
flood waters of Wills Creek and the
Potomac river were returning to their
channels today, leaving scenes of
desolation in their wake. Only one
small section was under water in the
city proper and the water was re
ceding rapidly. Ridgely and Dixley,
however, two towns on the West Vir
ginia side of the Potomac, remained
inundated, as was a wide area in the
lower Potomac valley.
Great havoc was wrought by the
flood, but so far as could be learned
no casualties resulted. Many miles
of railroad track were washed away,
two big steel bridges and a number
of smaller structures were destroyed,
while hundreds of buildings and
houses were damaged and in some in
stances washed away.
Preparations were under way for
relief work, but it was believed that
local organizations would be able to
handle the situation. Until the
plans for relief work are perfected
those affected are being cared for by
their respective communities.
Railroad traffic in and out of Cum
berland was at a standstill. Five
Baltimore and Ohio passenger trains,
including the Capital Limited, were
flood-bound at various points, while '
one Western Maryland train was
stranded three miles west of Key
ser, W. Va. The passengers from
that train spent the day at Keyser.
The railroads were the heaviest hit
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Stork Brings 20
Lbs. of Triplets
New Bern, March 27.—The
stork was generous to M r.and
Mrs. E. H. Williams, who live
near Polloeksville, according to a
report received from that town
yesterday. Three boys that bal
anced the scales at twenty
pounds were presented to them,
and mother and sons were said
to be getting along nicely.
Weather Man Predicts Cold Wpve
Washington, Mch. 29. Much colder
weather will overspread Mississippi
Valley, the East Gulf and Tennessee
! Saturday night and Sunday, and the
; Atlantic states on Sunday, the
Weather Bureau announced last night
—
YOUNG STRIBLING
WHIPS McTIGUE BUT
FAILS TO GET TITLE
Newark, N. J., March 31.—By the
Associated Press.)—Young Stribling,
j sensational Georgia school boy boxer,
decisively whipped Mike McTigue,
| world’s light-heavyweight champion
in a 12 round match tonight before a
c-jflwd of more than 13,000 in the first
Regiment Armory.
Stribling battered the champion
j from start to finish, and had cTigue
on the verge of a knockout in the
tenth round. j
Although he gained the unanimous
verdict of newspapermen at the ring
side, the victory did NOT give Strib
ling possession of the light-heavy
weight crown, under the New Jersey
no-decision laws a title can NOT
change hands except by a knockout
or foul. i
Youth Hews Off His Handi
NINE HATCHET STROKES PUNISH “OFFENDER”
And Gives Bible As Motive
Locust Grove, Ga., March 20.—
(Special.)—Holding the bleeding
stump of his right hand aloft, Her
bert Little, 17, late last night rushed
into his home near here and inform
ed the family that he had performed
the amputation in accordance with
the Biblical injunction, which says,
i “if thy right hand offend thee, cut it
off.”
Herbert Little is the son of a
prominent family. His father, H. H.
Little, is a well known and pros
perous citizen and one of his uncles
is sheriff of the county. According
to neighbors and friends he had been
seeking solitude a great deal during
the last few months and his reti
cence and avoiding of people had be
i come noticeable. When the recent
spell of bad weather set in young
Herbert always took the Bible with
him when setting out upon his soli
tary walks along lonely roads or the
secluded woods.
After first aid had been adminis
i
I tered at the home, he told his par- '
ents that he had read in the Bible
the passage fro mthe Sermon on the
Mount which reads: “If thy right
hand offend thee, cut it off.”
He explained that he understood
this to apply literally in his own
case and therefore had taken his
hatchet and chopped off the offending
member.
Whether religious fervor, border
ing on a sort of fanaticism sustained
him during the bloody operation,
when he was forced to hack and hew
no less than times, before it was sev
ered, is a question for psychiatrists
and expert alienists to discover.
During the dressing of the wound
by the doctor he almost lost conscious
ness from loss of blood. He did not
seem to have any regret over his ac
tion, repeating again and again that
he had acted upon the Biblical in
junction.
MORE DOCTORS WILL
1 WAR DEPARTMENT
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Several Physicians of This State
Will Aid in Making Training
Camp a Success
Word has been received from the ,
Citizens’ Military Training Camp of
ficer, Fourth Area, Atlanta, Georgia, I
that the following named physicians 1
of this state, members of the Medical
Officers Reserve Corps, have promis
ed to aid the War Department in
making this year’s Citizens' Military
Training Camps a success, in addi
tion to those whose names have form
erly appeared in our columns.
Capt. R. L. Daniels, M. O. R. C.
New Bern, N. C.; Capt. Philip S.
Easley, Med. 0. R. C. 317 Mulberry
Street, Statesville, N. C.;First Lieu
tenant Glen Long, Med. Newton, N.
C.; Joseph Ellmore Wier, Oteen U.
S. V. Hosp. 60, Asheville, N. C.; Lt.
Col. Joseph H. Way, Med. O. R. C.
South Main Street, Waynesville, N.
C.; Capt. Geo. S. Spence, Med. O. R.
C. U. S. V. Hosp. No. 60, Oteen, N.
C.
Typhoid inoculation and smallpox
vaccination will be given, without
charge, to young men between the
ages of seventeen (17) and twenty -
four (24) who are interested and
they will be glad to interview any
young men of North Carolina who
would like information regarding
these camps
These physicians are well known
throughout the state for their inter
est in civic and national affairs, and
the C. M. O. C. Officer has express
ed the appreciation of the War De
partment to them in a personal let
ter for their willingness to assist in
making these great summer camps a
concrete aid to the young men of
this country.
The Camps are open to all men
between the ages of 17 and 24 years,
who are of good moral character, in
telligent, and in good physical con
dition. Candidates must be native
born citizens or must have made ap
plication at least for first papers of
naturalization.
Mr. Robert Wellons of Smithfield
is chairman for Johnston County, and
applications for the training carnp
may be secured from him.
Wm. F. Malone, Noted
Surgeon, Dies While
Performing Operation
Milwaukee, Wis., March 26.—Dr.
William F. Malone, widely known
Milwaukee surgeon and member of
the American College of Surgeons,
died last night at Hanover Hospital
while performing a major operation
on a patient.
Nurses and attendants in the room
saw his hand falter, and they rush
ed to his aid, he fell to the floor.
An assisting physician completed
the operation. At the hospital to
night it was said that the operation
on the patient had been a success.
FRIENDS OF M'LEAN
MET HERE FRIDAY
AND PERFECT CLUB
W. H. Call Of Selma IS
Elected County
Chairman; John A.
Narron, Secretary.
BARBECUE AT HOLT LAKE
To a delegation of something over
one hundred Democrats, well repre
sentative of the seventeen townships
of the county, Hon. W. J. Brogden,
of Durham, delivered a twenty-min
ute speech here Friday afternoon in
the court house in behalf of the candi
dacy of A. W. McLean for governor.
The speech was a flat denial that
Mr. McLean’s candidacy was being
promoted by machine politics. It
was a challenge to all comers to show
that he is or has been anything else
through the years of his career but
a farmer and lawyer and business
man of the soundest and sturdiest
type.
The meeting was called to order
at 2:30 o'clock by Jud^e F. H. Brooks.
Immediately following the address a
McLean-for-Governor organization
was perfected which elected Mr. W.
II. Call, of Selma, as county chair
man, and Mr. J. A. Narron, of this
city, as secretary. An advisory coun
cil composed of W. H. Godwin, of
O'Neals; John O. Ellington, of Cleve
land; J. R. Barbour, of Banner; W.
A. Edwards, of Boon Hill; Dr. G. D.
Vick, of Selma; and Ed S. Abell and
J. A. Wellons, of this city, was also
established.
The organization waded into the
campaign with a determination to
make McLean governor. The work
of organizing each township will fol
low within a short time.
After the deliberations in the
court house, those in attendance re
paired to Holt Lake where a barbe
cue dinner was enjoyed.
Busy Bee Cafe Moves
The Busy Bee Cafe, the proprietor
of which is Mr. J. E. Lewis, moved
into new quarters last week on the
comer of Market and North Third
Streets. This building generally
known as the Ashley Smith proper
ty was recently purchased by W. M.
Sanders, has been renovated and now
presents an attractive interior. The
cafe is fitted up with entirely new
fixtures.
To Assist In Revival
Rev. R. G. Tuttle, pastor of Cen
tenary church of Greensboro, arrived
yesterday and will assist his brother*
Rev. D. H. Tuttle, in a series of to
vival meetings at Stevens Chapel this
week.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all to attend these services.
Prayer At M. E. Church
The prayer meeting at the Centen
ary Methodist church will be con
ducted Wednesday evening by Rev.
D. H. Tuttle or by his brother, Rev.
R. G. Tuttle. The public is invited.
Circle No. 3 To Meet
Circle No. 3 of the M. E. Mission
ary Society will meet Thursday aft
ernoon at 3:30 o'clock with Mrs.
Charles A. Creech.
Princeton Offers LL.D.
Degree to Mr. Coolidge
Washington, March 29.—President
Coolidge has been invited by Repre
sentative Brown, of New Jersey, to
visit Princeton University on October
4 and receive an honorary degree of
LL.D. On that date, Mr. Brown ex
plained., Princeton plays Amherst, the
President’s ahna mater, in the open
ing football game of the season.